- Canada's Digital Collections
Collections include over 400 Web sites covering Canadian history, geography, science, technology and culture, ranging from national treasures to local history. The site also features educational resources, such as curriculum units, classroom activities, quizzes and games. Also available in French.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/
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Review It - CHILDE Project
Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe is a project, funded under the European Commission's Culture 2000 programme, which has created a collection of images from early children's books.
http://www.bookchilde.org/
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Review It - CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
Aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides a number of special features.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/
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Review It - Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology (DLNET)
A collaborative effort by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Iowa State University (ISU) and Virginia Tech (VATECH) to provide a platform for posting, reviewing and accessing learning resources in Engineering and Technology and a gateway to education and research materials.
http://www.dlnet.vt.edu
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Review It - DSpace: Durable Digital Depository
A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Site includes mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information.
http://www.dspace.org/
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Review It - epub WU
Virtual University Project at the Vienna University of Economics. Collection of fulltext dissertations, PhD theses and working papers. Site in German with some holdings in English.
http://epub.wu-wien.ac.at
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Review It - ibiblio
A collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill to provide public domain material, organised by subject and UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) including journals, ebooks and a special collection of linux programs and documentation.
http://www.ibiblio.org
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Review It - Iran Virtual Library
Nonpartisan archive of social, political, economic and cultural documents pertaining to Iran. Edited by Frederick Nemani, a professor at South Bank University, London.
http://www.irvl.net/
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Review It - Kentucky Virtual Library
Online catalogs and databases, online tutorial and help with internet-based research, a virtual reference desk, and access to Kentuckiana digitized collections, serving Kentuckians and supporting the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University.
http://www.kyvl.org/
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Review It - Library of California
Details the Library's services to local libraries, state and local government and the public as well as links to California Research Bureau papers online, LDS publications, the California Library Directory and other useful information.
http://www.library.ca.gov/loc/
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Review It - Nalanda Digital Library
Based at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC) in India. Open access is provided to selected collections of published papers, PhD theses, student projects, research reports, course materials, ebooks, etexts and Perl scripts.
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in
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Review It - NICI Virtual Library
The National Institute for Community Innovations is based in Montpelier, Vermont and provides a subscription service for access to dictionaries, e-books, card catalogs, periodicals, and researched internet resources.
http://www.vlibrary.org
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Review It - NLS Digital Library
Special collections held by the National Library of Scotland including: The Murthly Hours medieval manuscripts, Experiences of War, Maps of Scotland, First Scottish Books, Scottish Decorative Bookbinding, Photographs of Modern Scottish Writers, Churchill, Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots.
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html
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Review It - Questia
Paid subscription service that provides access to a large online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
http://www.questia.com/
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Review It - Sagnanetið
Saganet project by the National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University with the association of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland to provide the entire range of Icelandic family sagas and other works published before 1900 online. Site in English and Icelandic.
http://sagnanet.is/
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Review It - Te Waimano
The National Library of New Zealand's website with digital samples of the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, spotlighting periods from the years 1750 to 2000. Bilingual site (Maori and English).
http://www.tewaimano.govt.nz/
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Review It - The Digital Reading Room (DRR)
An Athabasca University Library project. The DRR is an interactive online reading room, offering a digital solution for course readings and supplementary materials. It has been designed to provide access to faculty-selected resources and can accommodate a range of formats, including online journal articles, electronic books, audio or video clips, web sites and learning objects.
http://library.athabascau.ca/drr/
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Review It - The Online Archive of California
This union database of manuscripts and images from institutions across California is comprised of over 5,000 archival finding aids encoded using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard and the SGML document type definition. Part of the California Digital Library.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
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